I remember when Flickr didn't oversharpen your images. They used to look how you uploaded, no matter if viewed on Flickr or posted to a forum. Still angers me.

Flickr has been sharpening photos on resize since day one. The originals have always been untouched. I just checked and there's certainly no difference in the Original rendered on Flickr or in the downloaded original which matches the uploaded file. I guess I don't know how they handle files that are small that you wouldn't necessarily need resized, I assume they probably "resize" them anyways.

I had a paid Flickr account before Yahoo bought it. I was less than impressed when Yahoo bought it and terminated the paid account system only to bring it back again. SmugMug wants even more money BUT... they also sell your photos. From what I read it is one of those magazine subscription sort of deals where you have to tell them not to sell/ use your photos. If you do not tell them not to then they assume you are ok with them doing as they please. This is why I removed all my photos from Flickr right after SmugMug took over.

I haven't deleted my account or my groups there. Mostly because I hate to finish them off when there isn't anywhere else I have found to move them to. I have looked at the tried self hosted options but setting it all up takes time and figuring out software so I'm making slow progress.

Also, if you need a simple, quick way to download your photos from Flickr I found https://downloadair.ghusse.com/ which worked really well and was free to use.

Posted by thatgrrlSmugMug wants even more money BUT... they also sell your photos. From what I read it is one of those magazine subscription sort of deals where you have to tell them not to sell/ use your photos. If you do not tell them not to then they assume you are ok with them doing as they please. This is why I removed all my photos from Flickr right after SmugMug took over.

Can you give me a link/source for that? I tried finding this out, or finding an option to opt out, but I can't find anything where they say they'll sell my photos. If this is true, I'd like to opt out. I did see that they may display your photos with your account name attached & linked to promote the site, but I'm fine with that.

Posted by thatgrrlI had a paid Flickr account before Yahoo bought it. I was less than impressed when Yahoo bought it and terminated the paid account system only to bring it back again. SmugMug wants even more money BUT... they also sell your photos. From what I read it is one of those magazine subscription sort of deals where you have to tell them not to sell/ use your photos. If you do not tell them not to then they assume you are ok with them doing as they please. This is why I removed all my photos from Flickr right after SmugMug took over.

I haven't deleted my account or my groups there. Mostly because I hate to finish them off when there isn't anywhere else I have found to move them to. I have looked at the tried self hosted options but setting it all up takes time and figuring out software so I'm making slow progress.

Also, if you need a simple, quick way to download your photos from Flickr I found https://downloadair.ghusse.com/ which worked really well and was free to use.

I have heard this is s decent place to stuff host. I want to try it myself, since I deleted my flicker, but haven't got around to it.

Just as storage mostly, not necessarily for sharing, but I know that's not the purpose of Flickr. It would be convenient - especially since they came out with the ability to automatically upload/sync photos on the computer so all I had to do was insert my camera's memory chip and it uploads to my account. But only in JPG format. I would pay extra for that kind of storage feature on a site that I already use regularly.

Posted by ArcherI ended up cracking and repurchasing Pro since I had photos to upload above the 1000 photo limit, and the code base for my UE site isn't at the point I'd want to put it to use for a personal site.

In general, online storage is the problem. :-\

LowEndBox.com does occasionally have specials on storage machines with low specs and large chunks of disk.